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Michael McIntyre

Date of birth: 21-02-1976

The son of comedy scriptwriter Ray Cameron - who co-wrote Kenny Everett's TV shows with Barry Cryer, Michael McIntyre's first stand-up success came at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival, where he was nominated for the Perrier best newcomer award. He returned to the festival in 2004, 2006 and 2007.

In 2006, he made his debut at the Kilkenny comedy festival, returning the following year when he also added Montreal's Just For Laughs festival to his CV. In 2007 he was nominated for the Chortle Award for best headliner – a title he won in 2008.

He is a regular face on panel shows and on stand-up shows on both TV and radio, including the Comedy Store and The World Stands Up on Paramount and 4 Stands Up on Radio 4 in 2007/8, which he hosted.

But the Kurupt FM crew scooped best scripted comedy, with People Just Do Nothing taking the prize over fellow nominees Camping, Fleabag and Flowers.

Here are the gang on the red carpet before the ceremony:

But Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge still added to her awards cabinet for best female performance in a comedy programme for the show.

The actress – who denied reports she was in line to be a possible future Doctor Who today – joked: 'I have been wet dreaming about receiving a BAFTA my whole life!’

And she added: ‘'Most of all, I want to thank my mother, who told me I could be whoever I wanted to be, as long as I was outrageous.’

Other nominees in this category were Diane Morgan for Cunk on Shakespeare, Lesley Manville for Mum and Olivia Colman, also for Fleabag.

And Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe wont the best comedy and comedy entertainment category over Cunk on Shakespeare, The Last Leg, Taskmaster.

Brooker said: ''Hopefully when we get to 2017 Wipe we'll have a less awful year to summarise.'

As previously announced, Joanna Lumley was honoured with a Bafta Fellowship, the highest honour the academy bestowed

The ceremony was hosted by Sue Perkins for the first time, at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank.

She made a wry joke about stepping down from Bake Off, when she described BBC show The Replacement, she joked that it was ’a show about how stressful it can be when someone takes over your job – I mean, I really couldn’t relate to it’.

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